Not on the attack — this expression can be characterized by the development of the events around the scandal with the rape of 18-year-old resident of new York city two police officers. The perpetrators of the incident were left without their icons and you risk permanently losing their freedom.
The victim managed to achieve this with difficulty and not at once.
15 September, officers from division of narcotics conducted a RAID under cover with a group of colleagues. According to court materials, during surgery they found marijuana and packaging of clonazepam in the car brand Infinity at which wheel there was a girl, and in the back seat her two male friends.
Finding drugs, the police ordered a young motorist to follow them in unmarked vans, and young people were released and asked not to follow them. The guards handcuffed 18-year-old woman handcuffed and taken to the Parking lot. Then one of them raped her and another forced to perform oral sex.
The attackers gave the victim to understand that the intimate contact had to pay for freedom, gave her the banned drug, and was released.
However, the girl did not put up with abuse. The first thing she went to the hospital to get DNA samples of rapists. The next point was the access to a lawyer, whose help she decided to enlist before contacting the authorities.
The statement of the lawyer the police took reluctantly. Officers, 37-year-old Eddie Martins and 32-year-old Richard Hall, tried to justify himself by assuring that the victim herself had agreed to the sexual contact.
The victim was willing to punish the offenders at any cost, so I decided to use all possible ways — she started to share your story in social networks. Soon she had won over hundreds of caring compatriots, and information about police-rapists quickly became one of the most popular news in the US and abroad.
During the proceedings, police requested the victim to drop the charges, recognizing the immorality of his act, but she stood her ground.
The public outcry came to fruition. First Martins and Hall was suspended from work in the police, then arrested for violating 50 articles of the criminal and administrative code, including rape, kidnapping and abuse of power. On Monday the accused had to resign.
Before the court session policemen were released on bail of $250 000 and 150 000 respectively. In case of confirmation of guilt, they go to jail for 25 years.
